[0:00]I'm so excited for you to learn this. I'm about to jump out of my chair for joy. This is amazing stuff. Shows you the Bible supernatural. Okay, watch. Here it is. Okay, so let's begin. The first saying of our Lord, Luke 23, 33-34, and this is going to be some fascinating stuff. And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots. So Jesus says, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." Now, if you pay attention carefully, the context is clear. He's praying for the soldiers who are crucifying Him because they don't know the gravity of their sin. Now, let's go a little deeper. What time was he crucified? Now, guys, please, let's go into in-depth, you're going to be blown. I promise you, you're going to be blown away. Mark 15:25, He was crucified third hour, 9:00 A.M. Now why is that significant? At the time of our Lord, the Jews would observe the morning and evening sacrifices. Because according to Numbers 28:3-8, God commanded that the priests would offer the morning and evening sacrifices in the Tabernacle, later in Jerusalem, and the morning sacrifice, and the evening sacrifice, at the time of Jesus, took place at 9:00 in the morning, 3:00 P.M. in the afternoon. The priests would offer sacrifices, and the Jews would go up and pray. Now notice, Jesus is crucified at 9:00 A.M., the third hour, at the time of the morning sacrifice, and at the time of the morning prayer, Jesus prays as he's hanging on the cross, as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, because he's our high priest offering his human soul, his human life as a burnt offering, sin offering, guilt offering, wave offering for our sins. We caught that first point? That's the first saying. All right. Now watch here. The second saying, John 19:25-27. Now, this is going to go a little deep, all right? I swear to you, you're going to pass out from shock and awe. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!" Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her to His own home. So point number one, when Jesus was crucified, John 19:17, notice the shape of the mound that he was crucified on. And he, bearing his cross, went to a place called the Place of the Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. You can still find that mound in Jerusalem. There's a mound that looks like a head, a skull. Jesus is hanging on a cross. One of the poles would be protruding into the ground. So if you're looking at it, you see what looks like a head, a skull, and you see what looks like a stake being driven into the skull, right? It almost looks like someone's head is being pierced through, crushed, right? Okay, remember that. Who is Jesus again? He's the fruit of Mary, Luke 1:42. Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!" Mary, her fruit, Jesus, the fruit of her womb, the fruit hanging on the cross. That's your seed, and John is your seed. Now notice that the cross is also described as a tree. Acts 10:39. And we are all witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. Okay. Mary, the woman, Jesus, the fruit of her womb. Fruit on a tree. Her seed nailed on a cross, and the cross is on top of a mound that's shaped like a skull, and John is her seed. That's Genesis 3. A woman eats fruit from a forbidden tree and gives birth to death. Another woman gives birth to a fruit, her fruit, her seed, who hangs on a tree, and if you eat that fruit from the tree, you live. That virgin in Genesis 3, was a virgin. This woman is a virgin. And then we're told, in Genesis 3:14-15, that God will put hatred between the serpent and the woman, and between his seed and her seed. He will crush the heel of the seed, and the seed will crush his head. Jesus, the seed of the woman who now has the serpent strike at his heel, because it was Satan who instigated Jesus being nailed to the cross. But as he bites his heel, then he crushes his head by the cross, crushing the head of the serpent. That's why it was shaped like a skull symbolic of, here's the seed of the woman who now crushes the head of the serpent under his heel. I see why Jesus is calling her woman. This is the new Eve, the new woman, and we are her seed, and here is the fruit of her womb hanging on a tree. A virgin gives birth to a fruit hanging on a tree, which fruit you eat to live. That virgin in Genesis 1 called woman ate forbidden fruit from a forbidden tree and brought death. And the serpent would strike her seed. Who's her seed? Jesus, in union with His church. That's why he says to John, "Behold your mother, woman, your son, here's your seed, I'm forming and fashioning your seed." So we caught that? That was the second saying. Okay. Now what's the third saying? Luke 23:39-43. Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, "If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us." But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? You're being condemned to die. Don't you fear God? And we indeed justly, watch this, for we receive the due reward of our deeds." Watch how much meat you'll find in the statements of this man. But this man has done nothing wrong. Then he said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into Your kingdom." And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." Now, let's unpack the meat. It says in Mark as well, Matthew that when these criminals were first crucified, they were also mocking Him, insulting Him. Remember, if the Lord hung on the cross from 9:00 in the morning until after 3:00 P.M., that means as the hours elapsed, and as the criminals are beholding Jesus, the Spirit is working in them, and one of them softens and comes to realization, this man is not a criminal. Now, notice how much this man realized in those few short hours. Number one, he realized Jesus is innocent. Number two, he realized he is guilty and worthy of death, that he deserves to be condemned because he's a sinner. Number three, he knows that Jesus is the Christ, and that he is the Lord, and the kingdom is his. You see how much he came to see? He realized Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Lord and King, who owns the kingdom, who was guiltless, and yet he was a sinner deserving death, and wanted the Lord to remember him and have mercy, and that death would not be the end of him because he would enter into His kingdom and manifest His kingdom, which means he knew the Lord would be raised. All of that, huh? Now the paradise, if you go to 2 Corinthians 12:1-4 and Revelation 2:7, the paradise would be the third heaven, the Heaven of God, the abode of God, where angels and glorified believers dwell, where the kingdom would be. Now, what about Jesus descending to Abraham's bosom? Well, yeah, he did. Well, how could he say to the thief, "Today you'll be with me in Paradise," if Jesus's human soul and spirit didn't go to the third heaven where Paradise is, but went to Abraham's bosom? Well, there's one of two explanations. Are you ready? As God, he's omnipresent. So, as a man, with a physical body, human soul, the physical body was in the grave, and the human soul would have went down to Abraham's bosom. But as the Divine Logos and Son, he's present everywhere. So yes, it'd be true that that man would have been with Jesus in Paradise because as God, he's already there. John 3:13, no one has ascended to heaven, but he who descended from Heaven, the Son of Man who is in Heaven. So that's one explanation. The other explanation, that at the time of Jesus, the Jews believed in two paradises, the heavenly Paradise and the Paradise of Sheol, what Jesus calls Abraham's bosom. So if that's the case, then the Paradise he would have went to is Abraham's bosom. Either way, there's no problem. So the example of the thief is to give you encouragement for your loved ones, because you guys are already walking with the Lord, may you stay faithful, may I stay faithful, that even your loved ones still have hope of salvation. Even in their dying moments, they can cry out to the Lord, and the Lord, who's a God of infinite mercy, by his blood, purify them and acquit them. The only thing is, their rewards won't be as many. But that should not be the motivation anyway. So now that said, now the fourth saying of our Lord. Let's do this, Brutus. All right. John 19:28. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I thirst." Now notice the key. He realized he had now accomplished redemption. Note what he says, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I thirst." It's not a coincidence that Jesus said, "I thirst," right after John tells you, he had now accomplished redemption. So was he really physically thirsty? No. Let me tell you what he was thirsty for. Psalm 42:1-2. What was he thirsting for? As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? That's what he was thirsting. He was thirsting to return back to the Father. So you see it's not a coincidence as now seeing everything is accomplished. Jesus said, "I thirst." Because now he had made atonement. Now he's thirsting to be alongside the Father in the same glory he had before the world was. Because for all this time, he was in a fallen world, a world plunged in darkness and sin, devoid of water. Because water means the water of life, the Holy Spirit. And where do I get that from? John 7:38-39, "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." But this he spoke concerning the Spirit.
[11:04]If you believe in me, I will fill you with the Holy Spirit, who is the true water. Whom those believing in him would receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. Now, I thirst because I've accomplished salvation. Now watch, watch what he does in Matthew 27:46. Pay attention again. Now from the sixth hour, that's noon, until the ninth hour, there was darkness over all the land. Now notice, from noon to 3:00 P.M., darkness over the land. Now, because we don't read sequentially and don't meditate, we do not figure things out and connect things. Sadly. If you want to know why the darkness disappeared at the ninth hour, well, why didn't only last till the ninth hour, 3:00 P.M.? Because of Jesus's prayer, 46. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani," that is, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" Matthew and Mark both mention this and they want you to make the connection. It's because Jesus prayed at the ninth hour, 3:00, God heard and removed the darkness. Are you catching it? Because now I got to unpack this. So if I ask you, why did God remove the darkness at the ninth hour, 3:00 P.M.? Because when Jesus prayed, God heard him. Now why did Jesus pray that prayer? Because of Psalm 22. And people misread this Psalm. The Psalm is not a prayer of Jesus being abandoned and feeling abandoned. The Psalm is a prayer of, "Lord, come to my vindication and deliver me now that all things are accomplished." Here it is. "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" Now, but finish it. "Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?" Now when you read it, it's not a prayer of despair. "Oh, God, you've abandoned me." No, it's a prayer of, "Why is it taking so long for you to come to my aid and delivering me?" Because now that all things are accomplished, it's time for my vindication. And what's the proof? This is what it means, because of Psalm 22:23-24, guys, read. "You who fear the Lord, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him, And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel! For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him. So much from what I was taught that God hid his face from Him. The Father did not hide His face from Jesus. But when He cried to Him, He heard. What more proof do you want? This is not a prayer of despair. "Oh, what more do you know." What more proof do you want? So now, do you understand why the darkness was removed? Because that was a sign, "Son, I have heard you." Because what did John 19:28 say? Now that he saw, he had accomplished redemption. Then he says, "Father, it's time. Time to deliver me, for all things have been accomplished." So the, "My God, My God," Psalm 22, he's drawing your attention, and he's telling you, "Read it. That's not a cry of despair or fear." It's a cry that I have accomplished my Father's will, and now the Father will vindicate me by delivering me. It is a cry of assurance that my Father has not abandoned me. It's a cry of confidence. He has not turned his face from me because he loves me and he hears my cry. In other words, if you interpret it correctly, the Father removing the darkness was the Father's way of saying this. You guys ready to hear it? This was the Father's way of saying, "Son, you've done it. You have accomplished redemption. It's now time for you to come home. Come home, son. Come back home with me. Where you belong, on the throne alongside of me. You've done it, son. Come back to the glory that you had with me before the world was, because this is your rightful place. You humbled yourself. You allowed yourself, son, to be beaten, to be spit at, to be whipped, to be humiliated, to be hated, to be nailed to a cross, and even experienced death. So now it's time for you to come. You've accomplished salvation. You have done it. Come home where you will be acknowledged, loved and glorified. And all who are here will know who you are and your value and acknowledge your worth, for you are my son. My son. You are my heart. You are the Spirit's heart, loved and adored by the Spirit and by all the angels. Come home, son." And then he says last two sayings. Watch it. So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. Now Luke gives you the actual words that He said when He gave up His spirit. Luke 23:46, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." Having said this, He breathed His last. So the last two words, "It is finished!" "Abba, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." And His spirit left. That's it, last seven sayings.
